Sunday, June 15, 2014

“Uptown 2”

As I am told that Wake:
Great Lakes Thought & Culture will soon go off-line, I am posting the
webpage for my poem “Uptown 2” (part of a longer Pittsburgh series titled “The
Muddy Banks”) here now so that it remains available.Part of this piece (the second half of the poem,
beginning with the line “I bring news”) is my translation of an anonymous
9th-century Irish (Gaelic) poem beginning “Scél lemm duib. . .”

“Uptown 2” was originally published by Wake: Great Lakes Thought & Culture, a publication of Grand
Valley State University,
on January 14, 2013.As of this posting date, it is still online
at this URL: